Sales and Recruitment is the only thing available to Graduates

Making enough money to sustain the lifestyle you want is important, for some people you have advised. They are happy to struggle and live off payday loans i.e Jalebi, but you still need an occupation that pays a decent wage.

The thing is I really don't want to do a lab based job, well not any of the ones I've seen anyway. And the vast majority require IBMS accreditation which I don't have. I did biomed with the intention of going on to medicine and for the moment that looks well out of the question.

Lots of 2:2 grad schemes but too late for 2014 entry
Search for jobs on company websites not milk round or reed

Well if you're going to be fussy about it then of course there are no jobs out there. At the stage of needing your first job you get a job and take all the experience you can from it. Once you've got experience then you can start being more picky about what you do.

Also, minus the debates and whatnot. It does appear then that these jobs are the main graduate roles going with the exception of the schemes.

If not graduate jobs what are other prospective things that can be applied to? I seriously do not see very many jobs, which are classed as 'entry-level' or for people without experience, advertised.

I'm finding myself in a similar situation. I've graduated with a 2:1 in Psychology. But all I can seem to find are sales and recruitment style jobs. Especially at this time of year, when most hospitality and retail graduate jobs I want to apply for are no longer taking applications. I've looked through all the usual job sites, direct.gov, and even signed up to graduate agencies.
I originally wanted to study to become an educational psychologist. I need to work as either a teaching assistant or assistant psychologist, but its very difficult to get a job in either because you need a qualification now for the former.

Is that the PGCE you're referring to? If it's what you really want to do for the prerequisite to become an educational psychologist then stick at it! Never know, you may end up enjoying it so much that you wish to take up teaching full time

No, its a doctorate of educational psychology. Its a 3year funded course. It just seems a little frustrating having to potentially to pay to get on another course to get a teaching assistant job.

No, its a doctorate of educational psychology. Its a 3year funded course. It just seems a little frustrating having to potentially to pay to get on another course to get a teaching assistant job.

I had seen these, training contracts starting from 2016. However I don't understand why they always start in 2 years time

Hmm its making me scared. But I have a distinct plan to become a chartered accountant so it shouldn't be a problem hopefully

^^ Okay I don't necessarily believe this statement, however I'm a biomed grad as of this year and it appears that sales and recruitment are the only jobs that are going for grads unless you have a specific degree (ie medicine, dentistry, construction etc.)

How do you find jobs that are different to this? The only thing I've been contacted for via job boards etc is sales or recruitment. Is this really all that there is for a graduate job nowadays?

I understand with both career paths you can move on up into management and director roles, so you obviously aren't stuck with the same thing forever...but it just seems that these are the only open doors.

Do you have an accounting/business degree? Most of the things I'd seen related to graduate trainee accounting jobs require those degrees so obviously with a science degree I miss out

Sorry I should have specified, graduating with a 2:2, but also these schemes are always massively over subscribed so for those that are unsuccessful what could they do?


I had seen these, training contracts starting from 2016. However I don't understand why they always start in 2 years time, what do you do in the 2 years inbetween for money? I thought the law conversion was done once the contract had started.

Right you do know consultancy is sales i.e. pitching to clients, retail lmao your incredibly naive aldi - sales targets (kpi's)...

Finance, consulting, law... these all have like a quad trillion different jobs within themselves. How can you think Recuritment and Sales are the only jobs? Like, what planet are you living on?

Accounting doesn’t require an accountancy or business degree... how have you got this far and yet know so little about the job market?

Law conversion course is a year. If you’re unsuccessful, that’s the same with every job, it’s an irrelevant point to raise. Be successful. Training contract is after law conversion.


Project management, financial modelling, operations, implementation.... every job has sales in it if you look hard enough. Consulting is advising a business through idea generation + implementation, don’t call someone naive when you only go onto to look foolish.